The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and InfluenceIn The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum investigates for the first time the concept of the daimon (daemon, demon), normally confined to religion and philosophy, within the theory and practice of ancient western astrology (2nd century BCE – 7th century CE). This multi-disciplinary study covers the daimon within astrology proper as well as the daimon and astrology in wider cultural practices including divination, Gnosticism, Mithraism and Neo-Platonism. It explores relationships between the daimon and fate and Daimon and Tyche (fortune or chance), and the doctrine of lots as exemplified in Plato’s Myth of Er. In finding the impact of Egyptian and Mesopotamian ideas of fate on Hellenistic astrology, it critically examines astrology’s perception as propounding an unalterable destiny. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part 1
Daimon and Fortune | 15 |
Part 2
Gods and Daimons | 157 |
Part 3 Lots and the Daimon | 277 |
Appendices | 397 |
Bibliography | 483 |
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Agathos Daimon Ananke Ancient Antiochus Aphrodite archons Aries Ascendant B. G. Teubner bad daimons benefics Brill Cambridge CCAG VIII/4 Chapter chart connection cosmos culture decans degrees demons Demotic diurnal divine Dorotheus Edited Egypt Egyptian eleventh place Eros and Necessity fate Firmicus formula Fortune and Daimon Gnostic gods Greek Hellenistic astrology Hephaestio Hermes Hermetic Hermetica Horoscopes Hour-marker housemaster Iamblichus Ibid Isis Kronos Leiden lord Lot of Daimon Lot of Eros Lot of Fortune malefics Manilius Mercury Midheaven Moon Myth of Er nativity Neugebauer oikodespotēs Olympiodorus Orphic Oxford Paulus Paulus Alexandrinus personal daimon Pingree planetary planets Plato Plotinus Plutarch Porphyry Porphyry’s pronoia Ptolemy Religion repr Rhetorius ruler Saturn Shai soul stars táv Tepi thema mundi Theurgy tºg toū tºy trans translation Tyche University Press Venus Vettius Valens Zeus zodiac zodiac sign δὲ ἐν καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸν τοῦ τῶν